A World of Constant Strangers: The Neil Young Results Thread

Cool clip. Who was that Hollywood Palace host? I don't recognize him.

"Walk on" has a bit of the power pop feel to it as well, though that and "Barstool Blues" placed on my ballot in the mid-twenties and "Winterlong was top 10.

I always heard "Walk On" was Neil's answer to "Sweet Home Alabama"

"Winterlong" probably is the best song the Pixies did; but imo that doesn't put it in Neil's top 50..... ;-)

i think sweet home alabama came out after walk on.

haha i was gonna make that joke but i actually love the pixies

From what I've read, he was responding to some press criticism of a recent tour.

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^ my #1

La Lechera and I both voted for "When You Dance I Can Really Love". There are days when it's my favorite Neil song.

with you 100% on "Walk On," Clemenza; if "Vampire Blues" shows up I'm really gonna lose my shit.

haha even the biggest on the beach stan couldn't put vampire blues on a top 40 neil songs list

Band of Outsiders!

"When You Dance I Can Really Love" was one of my two #1s.

"When You Dance," "Downtown," and "Barstool Blues" are his greatest jangle of the decade for me.

love the Pixies too--hmmm, maybe "Head On" is better than "Winterlong"?

"When You Dance"--great great song, but it never quite lives up to its own guitar sound for me....

The Band of Outsiders jukebox scene is so good.

Walk On comes in surprisingly low. I thought that was top ten fer sure

xpost Both Pixies Neil Young covers are awesome, and tbh probably introduced me to early Young at the time.

I probably have it, but refresh my memory--what's the other one?

Hah, don't understand not liking "Walk On". What a gem of a song, so many things going on in such a short amount of time.

Like many of Neil's songs, the band does not know the song at all on the album version, but one of my favorite things about that particular recording is Jack Nitzsche on piano, just listening to him sorta figuring it out as he goes, slowly gaining confidence and then exploding.

("When You Dance I Can Really Love", that is)

"Walk On" helped me through some heady shit back in the day. I can't separate the strength I took from it to judge it in any sort of subjective way.

The secret weapon on "When You Dance..." is Jack Nitzsche. xpost

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I feel like most of the song, the one-chord banging on the piano is Jack going "fuck you, Neil" over and over again, and I can't tell if those runs at the end are inspiration or exasperation.

Oh, to turn and see her smile.

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I didn't vote for "Vampire Blues" but I will rep for it, just a simple, menacing, slightly weird-sounding blues, and because of it you can put on side 2 of OTB for non-Neil people without scaring them off. By the time the closing trio of songs hit, they're powerless to object.

Thanks--just checked, and I do have it.

"Sugar Mountain"! Not only my introduction to Neil Young, but one of my earliest memories is watching this song on my dad's copy of Rust Never Sleeps on RCS Selectavision Videodisc. So happy to see it here!

love "sugar mountain," but has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department? Mark Kozelek started at "24", does Conor Oberst have some "dear god I'm old enough to vote" ballad?

on the real, "sugar mountain" is my least favorite of the canonical neil songs

When "Sugar Mountain" turned up on Decade, I was positive I'd heard it before, so it must have gotten some radio airplay around here.

has any singer beat Neil's "omg i'm 20!!!" in the unearned youth mourning department?

Sinead O'Connor comes close on "Emperor's New Clothes."

actually sinead suggests that at 21 she's too young to know what she wants, not too old to have fun

Britney doing "Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" or whatever?

I'm not good with voices on a phone, so--after one friend got tired of me asking "Who's calling?"--we worked out a thing where he says "Sugar Mountain, Sugar Mountain" right away and I know it's him.

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i think sugar mountain was the b-side to cinnamon girl? am i making that up?

Wow, I am surprised at all the love for "Maid."

I would so love to have been a sensitive singer-songwriter in the early '70s. Go see a film, fall in love with the actress, make a couple of calls, marry her.

B-side to "The Loner" originally--and worth some money, according to my record guide.

repeated as b-side to "cinnamon Girl" too.

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btw for whatever reason i realized i never heard Prairie Wind, or at least not all of it

listening now

"I'll never forgot what Chris Rock said" wtf

xp too bad there's not actually an insane crazy horse rave-up of sugar mountain.

Wow, I'd love to have that picture sleeve. The guide has "The Loner" 7-inch (Reprise 0785) as '68, the "Cinnamon Girl" 7-inch (Reprise 0911) as '70--and he used it again on the flip of "Heart of Gold"!

I have that single (w/the weird mono mix topside)! But not the picture sleeve.

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Haven't been there, but that's downtown Winnipeg circa 1955.